[Toolserver-l] RAM disk?

[Jacobi Carter]

Or /dev/shm/ on linux.

-Cobi
On Nov 14, 2010 9:58 AM, "River Tarnell" <river.tarnell at wikimedia.de> wrote:
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> Matthew P. Del Buono:
>> I'm in the conceptual phase of a new bot but it requires a bit of
>> processing. Unfortunately the only way this processing can be done is by
>> writing out two small files.
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>> However, the processing should be very fast, and after it's done the
>> files can be trashed. For that reason, I don't think it's very logical
>> to tax the hard drive with this processing.
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> You can use /tmp, which is a memory filesystem for exactly this reason.
(But
> only on Solaris systems, not Linux, so you probably want to use willow.)
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> - river.
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